According to the crime writer Ian Rankin, there is no need for crime novels to be longer than 300 pages – big books, he says, ...

John Rebus, the Edinburgh police inspector who has continually pushed the legal envelope over the course of two dozen novels by Ian Rankin, has finally ended up in prison. Convicted of attempting ...

Richard Rankin (no relation to Ian) is 41. “I have to say, I’d no idea he’d ever have quite such a long life,” the author says. “For me, he was just a useful way to look at Scottish society.

Ian Rankin’s new crime novel, “Midnight and Blue,” is book #25 in a dazzling series featuring John Rebus. Rebus was a Scottish cop specializing in homicide cases. Rankin aged him out in real time.

Rebus author Ian Rankin has revealed that he donates around one third of his income to charity. The crime writer’s novels about the gritty Edinburgh detective have sold vast numbers across the ...

Sir Ian Rankin has said. The celebrated crime writer said that readers now wanted “cosy crime” instead of his dark fiction, as the police are no longer seen as heroes. The author claimed that ...

AN ICONIC crime author visited York yesterday to promote the latest mysteries solved by his most iconic character. Sir Ian Rankin, author of the Rebus series, visited two bookshops in the York ...

Ian Rankin has revealed he found the new TV incarnation of Rebus so violent he had to look away from some of the more graphic scenes. The author said he felt there was far more bad language in the ...

"It's a mash-up of other people's ideas." Sir Ian has seen an AI book "in the style of Ian Rankin" but said it was "rubbish". "I think the human being is the most extraordinary creation and ...

British stars including author Sir Ian Rankin and Radiohead singer Thom Yorke are among thousands of international artists who have signed a statement against the unlicensed use of their work by ...